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Megan Fairchild’s graceful Ivy and Isabel Leonard’s agile, brainy Claire held their own as the other girlfriends. Shuler Hensley was a stolid Pitkin, and the San Francisco Opera Center’s Sheri Greenawald gave a broadly comic performance as the tippling Mrs. Dilley. Dancers Daniel Deivison-Oliveira, Justin Genna, Nicholas Korkos, Scott Marlowe and Benjamin Holliday Wardell made Joshua Bergasse’s choreography, restaged by Chip Abbott, look like a breeze. David Garrison and Amanda Green handled the narrator roles capably. Green, who doubles in the role of Lucy, is the daughter of co-lyricist (and the show’s original Ozzie) Adolph Green — talk about your Broadway royalty.

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One element of Romeo and Juliet that this interpretation does take literally is its setting, described in the prologue as “fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” The film was shot in Verona, Mantua and a few other medieval Italian towns, and the locations are gorgeous: Every scene seems to take place in a different fresco-adorned palace or pristinely preserved church. (In a strange conceit, Romeo is an amateur sculptor and often receives friends while standing in an airy room full of half-carved marble busts.) If you get bored with the familiar travails of the characters in the foreground, you can always focus on what’s happening with the painted angels, monks and saints who crowd the walls behind them.

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The couples took on the persona of well-known dynamic duos for their performances. One of my favorite dances tonight was the contemporary routine by Sadie Robertson and Mark Ballas as Adam and Eve. Judge Julianne Hough remarked that Sadie showed a real maturity, and judge Carrie Ann Inaba called it “the most poignant, passionate, powerful thing” but that it was a bit out of sync. Prior to the dance, Mark slammed head judge Len Goodman for his remarks last week: “Len doesn’t like things to be out of the box, he doesn’t like creativity, doesn’t like things that are artistic … and I’m not going to succumb to that.” To his credit, Len did not respond in kind but instead said he loved Mark’s creativity, passion and commitment to the show. He and Carrie Ann gave the couple 9s, while Julianne and judge Bruno Tonioli held up “10” paddles for a total of 38.